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A comprehensive survey of Australian short fiction from 1825 to 2001 which looks at social and literary movements and preoccupations as well as the works of individual writers.

Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia,Indooroopilly - St Lucia area,Brisbane - North West,Brisbane,Queensland,:University of Queensland Press,2002 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.

Works about this Work

Time in Some Aussie and Kiwi Short Stories : Lawson, Baynton, Palmer, and SargesonAngelo Righetti,
2012single work criticism — Appears in:
Time and the Short Story2012;(p. 105-118)Abstract'The short story in Australia and New Zealand has flourished from the last decade of the nineteenth century onwards, and has been strictly bound to orality - yarns, yarn-spinning (Bennet 5) - from its early days, as the speech cadence of a usually sympathetic storyteller, either involved in the narrative, or simply an eye-witness or a bystander, interacting with listeners / readers, influences its time-scale, rhythm, tempo and structure.

A few significant stories by representative short-fiction writers from the late nineteenty century well into the mid-twentieth century - Australian Henry Lawson, Barbara Baynton, Vance Palmer, and New Zealand Frank Sargeson - though reflecting specific colonial realities and issues in a period of nation building, will be discussed here for their contribution to a relatively new genre, with specific regard to their treatment of time, changing from a traditional to a gradually experimental mode where they are sometimes forerunners or aware of modernist techniques.' (105)

The Fence in Australian Short Fiction : 'A Constant Crossing of Boundaries'?Kieran Dolin,
2010single work criticism — Appears in:
Australian Cultural History,vol.
28no.
2/32010;(p. 141-153)Abstract'This article contributes to discussions about the significance of fences in the
Australian social imaginary. It undertakes a historical and intertextual reading of
eight short stories that take the fence as their titular symbol, and explores how the
fence story is rewritten at various moments of change in twentieth-century
Australia. Developments in narrative form and representation are related to
changes in the cultural and political contexts, through a critical engagement with
Iser's argument that the institution of literature works through a 'constant
crossing of the boundary between the real and the imaginary'. As an Australian
icon, the fence image illustrates the continuing power of settler discourse;
however, the literary reworkings of the fence story disclose new visions of identity
and otherness.' (Author's abstract)

Charity, Morality and Animal Rights : A Brief Life of Ellen Augusta Chads (E.A.C.)Pieter Koster,
2010single work criticism — Appears in:
Margin,April
no.
802010;(p. 3-14)Abstract'The writings and life of this Colonial Australian journalist and author, steeped in Victorian religious sentiment, have been all but forgotten. She has no living descendant and even her grave does not bear her name. Her stories, magazine articles, and a few scattered references in the literature are all that remain, and they too have been largely forgotten. Her other abiding legacy as an early campaigner for animal rights is unrecognised. This brief biographical sketch aims to fill the gaps in our current knowledge of her life and works.' (3)

Charity, Morality and Animal Rights : A Brief Life of Ellen Augusta Chads (E.A.C.)Pieter Koster,
2010single work criticism — Appears in:
Margin,April
no.
802010;(p. 3-14)Abstract'The writings and life of this Colonial Australian journalist and author, steeped in Victorian religious sentiment, have been all but forgotten. She has no living descendant and even her grave does not bear her name. Her stories, magazine articles, and a few scattered references in the literature are all that remain, and they too have been largely forgotten. Her other abiding legacy as an early campaigner for animal rights is unrecognised. This brief biographical sketch aims to fill the gaps in our current knowledge of her life and works.' (3)

Time in Some Aussie and Kiwi Short Stories : Lawson, Baynton, Palmer, and SargesonAngelo Righetti,
2012single work criticism — Appears in:
Time and the Short Story2012;(p. 105-118)Abstract'The short story in Australia and New Zealand has flourished from the last decade of the nineteenth century onwards, and has been strictly bound to orality - yarns, yarn-spinning (Bennet 5) - from its early days, as the speech cadence of a usually sympathetic storyteller, either involved in the narrative, or simply an eye-witness or a bystander, interacting with listeners / readers, influences its time-scale, rhythm, tempo and structure.

A few significant stories by representative short-fiction writers from the late nineteenty century well into the mid-twentieth century - Australian Henry Lawson, Barbara Baynton, Vance Palmer, and New Zealand Frank Sargeson - though reflecting specific colonial realities and issues in a period of nation building, will be discussed here for their contribution to a relatively new genre, with specific regard to their treatment of time, changing from a traditional to a gradually experimental mode where they are sometimes forerunners or aware of modernist techniques.' (105)

The Fence in Australian Short Fiction : 'A Constant Crossing of Boundaries'?Kieran Dolin,
2010single work criticism — Appears in:
Australian Cultural History,vol.
28no.
2/32010;(p. 141-153)Abstract'This article contributes to discussions about the significance of fences in the
Australian social imaginary. It undertakes a historical and intertextual reading of
eight short stories that take the fence as their titular symbol, and explores how the
fence story is rewritten at various moments of change in twentieth-century
Australia. Developments in narrative form and representation are related to
changes in the cultural and political contexts, through a critical engagement with
Iser's argument that the institution of literature works through a 'constant
crossing of the boundary between the real and the imaginary'. As an Australian
icon, the fence image illustrates the continuing power of settler discourse;
however, the literary reworkings of the fence story disclose new visions of identity
and otherness.' (Author's abstract)